Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-12

vas contemplated Dy mcn, eiio i"Sss
= stated we're abundantly proven in
court.
The diabolism was fully shared In
by women. Especially 80 was this the
case in the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS
Like the red-fiag procession OF raga,
mullins with torches that attempted
at night to enter the magnificent new
Board of Trade when the dedication
festivities of the institution had for
the time being transformed the huge
building into a scene OF social bril-
liancy without local precedent. The
repulsive, blasphemng intruders OF
both sexes were sternly forced back at
the muzzles of three dozen police re-
yolyers. In affairs like this the dusky
wife of Parsons and other no less des-
perate women seemed in their proper
element. Of the many other queer
outbreaks preceding the Haymarket
tragedy, the most startling at the time,
perhaps, was the parade on Thanks
giving Day, when, in ridicule OF Pres
ident tCleveland's proclamation, nearly
. thousand uncouth men and women
Of the slums, headed by banners OF
black and red, traversed the choice
residence avenues, wildly yelling and
soothing at the well-dressed people
who crowded to the windows, anxious
to learn the cause of tumult.
The city authorities affected for
some reason to ignore all ebullitlons
of the mob. AS result OF this
OFFICIAL INDIFFERENcE,
when the time came at last for the
eight-hour labor disturbances and the
simultaneous inauguration OF the Sc
cretly-cherished revolution" the
Anarchists were power indeed, and
the police were ignorant Of danger. 1t
Is true that the Chicago papers con-
tanned timely intimations OF the plots,
but owing to the peculiar attitude OF
the high municipal authorities, the
articles were treated as rank sensa-
tionalism.
Just one day before the time set for
the strikes, Louis Lingg, the bomb
maker, slipped into his lodgings
heavy, suspicious-looking box. three
feet in length. The box contained
largo invoice Of dynamite. Its deliv-
cry at Lingg's lodgings was the first
immediate preparations for
THE BLOODY RESULT
of five days later. For many weeks
previous Lingg had been purchasing
and experimenting with dynamite as
the paid agent of one Of the seven In
ternational "groups," but subsequent
events showed beyond any reasonable
doubt that this particular explosive
made the bomb that was heard round
the world. The bomb, with fifty 9TH
ers, was manufactured by Lingg under
the auspices of the international As
sociation, which furnished the money,
and of which the celebrated defend
ants we're not members simply. but
leaders.
Next day, May 1, the eight-hour
strikes began in earnest, and by nlght
fall, when the first intelligent esti-
mates were obtainable, 10000 men
walked the streets, idle. Promptly in
the morning, Sunday, when the
churches throughout the city were re-
sounding with swelling Hosannas, the
stuffy little Bohemian Hall on Emma
street was crowded with members OF
THE LEHR AND WEIR vEREIN,
An inner circle of the omnipre sent In
ternational. Dctails for the near-at-
hand conflict with the police were
submitted by Editor Epgel and listen
cd to by Spies and Lieutenant Fischer.
These plans we're the ones followed
almost to the letter at the Haymarket,
but the decision to do so was not
reached at this meeting. Instead, it
was determined to take action at an
other gathering of Lehr and Wehr in
q larger hall and more central loca-
tion, to be assembled within twenty
four hours. This was to be in Greif's
Hall, Monday night, May 3rd.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, of which Spies
and Schwab were the editors and
managers, called together the armed
men who were to engage in this
SPECIFIC COMPACT To MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, pub
lished few hours after the Bohemian
Hall meeting, contained this cabalistic
legenp: Y-Komme Montag
Abend." eY-Come Monday night.
This was the summons to the armed
sections to meet, as they did, Monday
night at Greif's. The call was pub.
lished again Monday afternoon, indi
eating the importance of the matters
to come before the meeting. The
Sunday issue OF the Arbeiter had a
significant article urging "quick and
immediate action" adding: By
Monday or Tuesday the conflict must
hare reached its highest intensity, else
success will then be doubtful" Almost
before the ink on this could dry, Spies
was at the Sunday afternoon meeting
of the Central Labor Union arranging
to have himself dispatched to Nc
Cormick's factory the following day
to address the thousands of strikers
out along the old Black Road.
From the top of a freight car, on the
prairie near McCormick's, next after
noOn-Monday-Spies belched into
the ears of $4,000 excited strikers,
mostly foreigners, the hottest harangue
ever uttered by him in public. He
spoke in the German language, OF
which he is more master even than OF
English. The effect of his words was
like magic.
CON TO M'CoRMIcK's!
Was the cry. The maddened hords,
urged forward by Spies, Lingg and
other daring Anarchists present,
rushed at the great factory like so
many wild beasts. They had caught
up bowlders and clubs on the way,
and in an instant the thousand win
nows Of the factory we're beng shiv-
cred in countless fragments. Then it
was that patrol wagons loaded
with police, the horses COW
cred with foam, dashed through
the crowd from behind. 1t is admit
ted by Spies that he ordered the mob,
many of whom were flourishing re-
volvers, to resist the attempt OF the
police to quell the riot. OF course
the victors were the police, but that
to Spies, according to his own ac-
counts, was not OF main concern. The
blood of workingmen had been